Chapter 17:: Kidnapped Ladies
Everyone on the Yggdrasil was still in bad spirits from the day before. Sigurd hadn't said much since Sierra left, and Citan had kept to himself as well. Karina, Billy and Zeke seemed to be continually playing poker or other random card games. Jessie joined them every once in a while, as did Bart and Fei, and rarely Rico. Primera watched the games quietly, sitting on Billy's lap all the while. Elly, Maria and Emeralda hung out together as they usually did, Chu Chu hovering around them a lot of the time.
Karina walked up to the breakfast table, carrying a tray of blueberry muffins. She smiled a little and said; "Hey, why don't we all go to the mall in Cimerion today. It's bound to lighten people's spirits." She paused and set the tray on the table, Billy taking one promptly.
"I think it's a good idea." Billy replied after a long heavy silence. He spread some butter on the muffin and smiled. "I'll go with you."
"I'll go too." Zeke put in quickly after Billy.
"Yeah, it'll be fun." Kajumei grinned and poked Brad. "How bout it, hun?"
"Ooh ooh! And I can go get more posters of that large breasted Mandy from Sugar Rush." Ziggy grinned and began giggling.
"Not so early." Rico rolled his eyes but after a few minutes of Ziggy's laughing he got fed up, took a newspaper and knocked Ziggy out yet again.
Brad blinked, then shrugged. "Sure, why not." He then glared at Billy and Zeke and any other male in the room. "And I'll have to make sure they keep their paws off my pure baby sister."
"We'll all go!" Fei stood up. "And have fun, god dammit, have fun!" He bellowed, and threw his hat (Don't ask me exactly why Fei has a hat) into the air.
::Change to the mall, where the group was standing in their casual clothes::
"Come on, Brad, I wanna get that new CD!" Karina poked him. "You always hold my money so that I don't spend it all, and I want my money NOW! Now now now!"
"Karina, you have enough CD's."
"Oh, right. If you all will excuse me, I need to go over here and get a drink." Karina rolled her eyes and walked off to the drinking fountain.
"Ah, see? All you need to do is use a strict tone and they'll back down." Brad nodded.
"You hold her money? What is she, five?" Bart squinted.
"Well, I just think she should learn to save money." Brad said.
"How can she learn if you hold her money all the time?" Billy asked.
"Well, you see- Oh, hold on a sec." He said and pulled out his cell phone, which was ringing. "Hello?" He smiled.
Practically everyone near him heard the scream over the cell phone. Brad winced and dropped his cell.
Karina walked up, putting her cell phone back into her purse. She stood next to Brad and smiled, one hand on her hip, one hand held out as if waiting for something. Brad looked at her sideways, pulled out his wallet and gave her money. Karina smiled and put the money into her purse.
"Thank you, Brad." She said sweetly.
Zeke grinned, then looked at Billy. "What a woman."
Billy smiled. "She's pretty cool with how she can pull that trick on him all the time and he always falls for it." He replied, and then followed Karina.
Brad flipped through his wallet and frowned. "Hey, wait. I had a few fifties in here." He blinked and looked at where Karina had scurried. "Ahh! Karina!"
Kajumei smiled and held up a few bills. "Oh, Brad thinks I put my hand on his butt because I wanted to. Little did he know, little did he know." She looked at Bart and the two whooped and did a high five.
"Snap!" Bart grinned and looked at Brad running around trying to find Karina.
"OK, young ones, now let us use some discretion while we are. Young ones?" Citan blinked and looked around. "Where did they all go?"
Jessie walked up, holding an Icee once again. He slurped a little, and then looked at him. "Dude, Hyuga, chill."
"I do not mean to bring down-"
"You mean come down, old timer?" Jessie eyed him.
"Yes. I do not mean to come down so hard, but I must be responsible- Jessie?! Where are you going?" Citan blinked.
"It smells like teen spirit, old man!" Jessie said and with a yelp of laughter was off.
Citan sighed and looked at Sigurd. "Do you think we will be drug off to be used as makeup samplers again?"
"Most likely." Sigurd sighed.
"Sigurd?" Citan whispered.
"Yes?"
"I'm scared."
"Me too."
"Hold me!"
"Only if you hold me too!" Sigurd whimpered as the girls descended upon them.
"Billy, listen to this." Karina said a put some headphones on Billy's head.
"Sounds like noise to me." Billy replied.
"Ugh, shows what you know." Karina smiled. "It's the new Black Dragon CD! It's been hyped for like, four months at least."
"Should I care?" Billy looked at her.
Karina smiled at him for a few moments, then said gently; "Billy, dear?"
"Yeah?" Billy said as he made a move for the New Age section.
"You are the squariest square that ever squared." She smiled.
"I'm not a square."
"Really?"
"Y-Yes! I'm very hip and with it! In fact, I think I shall get the new Spewing Guts CD!"
"You mean Bleeding Soul?" Karina eyed him.
"Whatever!" Billy sighed.
"Hey, Karina!" Zeke ran up. "Did you hear the new single from Celeztial?"
"Oh, look, they spelled it with a z instead of an s. I suppose spelling things correctly is square too?" Billy looked at Karina.
Karina poked Billy's side and smiled. "Yeah, I did. It seems kind of unoriginal."
"Yeah. But still, I'm getting the CD!"
"They have it here already?" Karina blinked.
"Yeah!"
"Cool!" Karina pushed past Zeke.
"Zeke, do you think I'm square?" Billy said.
"Why do you care?" Zeke blinked.
"Karina called me square."
"Well. Uh. I guess one could call you. um. Igottagobye!" Zeke slipped away.
Billy whimpered.
"Hey, Billy where's-WHOA!" Bart came up and began to talk, but Billy spun around and grabbed him.
"Tell me I'm not square!!" Billy screeched.
"Uh." Bart looked around and pushed Billy off. "I think we should remain on a five feet away at least relationship, Billy."
"Whatever, just tell me I'm not square!"
"Pssh! You're not square." Bart grinned.
"Really?"
"Nope. You're Ultra Square." Bart chuckled.
"Hey guys, wanna see what I got?" Fei said as he walked up.
"I'm not square!" Billy yelled and ran away.
Fei blinked. "Uh. Okay, that was disturbing."
"Billy's worried about being square." Bart said. Fei looked at him and the two stood in silence momentarily, then their cheeks bulged up, turned red and they burst out laughing.
Zeke walked up and paused. "What's your defect?" He asked.
Fei gasped. "No-nothing!" He chuckled and wiped a tear away.
"Rrrright." Zeke blinked and stepped away slowly.
Brad came up, seeming out of breath.
"What's wrong with you?" Bart blinked.
"I need to find Karina!" Brad gasped.
"Why?" Fei asked.
"She took my fifties!"
"Actually, that was your woman." Bart nodded.
Brad's chest heaved and he looked outside the electronics store. "KKKKAAAAAAJJJJJUUUUUUMMMMEEEEEIIII!!!!" He bellowed and ran off.
::At the salon::
"Did you hear something?" Kajumei looked over at Elly, Maria, Emeralda and Chu Chu, who were all getting manicures. Ziggy was there just for a backrub from the 'hot babe with the big yahoos'.
"Nope." They all replied.
"Eh." Kajumei shrugged and went back to reading.
"Do you think Citan and Sigurd are alive?" Maria looked at Elly.
"Maybe." Elly shrugged.
"Hehe." Emeralda chuckled.
"Citan.?" Sigurd whispered.
"Yes, Sigurd?" Citan whined.
"I'm in immense pain." Sigurd replied.
"Me too."
"The brushes. The eyelash curlers." Sigurd moaned.
"The powder and foundation!" Citan cried.
"Ahh!" Sigurd screamed.
"Pain." Citan whined as Jessie walked up, now wearing the latest in fashion and holding yet another Icee.
"Word, home slice." Jessie said.
Sigurd blinked. "What the hell is that thing on your head?"
"Oh, man, dude. I like went into this store and this lady said that like my fashion was sooooo last year! So, I decided to like cool myself up." Jessie grinned. "I'm in the zone."
Citan blinked. "Jessie. you need intense psychological help."
"Dude, don't diss the duds." Jessie turned around. "I'm gonna go hang with my peops."
"Jessie has peops?" Sigurd looked at Citan.
"What are peops?" Citan blinked.
Billy walked up and blinked. "Oh my lord, what happened to you?"
"Pain." Sigurd whispered.
"Yo, square." Jessie said and slapped Billy's back.
Billy turned to his father and his eyes bulged. "I AM NOT A SQUARE!!"
"You wear like a pastel bow half the time." Jessie replied.
"My father thinks I'm square." Billy sighed and fell to the ground next to Citan and Sigurd.
"I'll stick with you squares and make you all truly un-squarely." Jessie sat down and slurped some of his Icee. Some women walked by and smiled.
"Hi, Jessie!"
Billy looked at Jessie. "What. in. god's. name.?"
"Some of my peops." Jessie nodded.
Billy sighed. "I am rather square."
"Yes, yes you are. But don't feel bad. They're square too." Jessie pointed at Sigurd and Citan, who were lying in fetal positions on the ground murmuring about makeup and rabid squirrels.
"Oh lord!" Billy cried.
"Whooooooo lawdy lawd!" Ziggy whooped as he walked up. "I got the best massage from the hot lady with big yahoos!" He paused ad looked at Billy. "What's wrong with the square?"
Billy cried out and fell into a fetal position with Citan and Sigurd.
Rico appeared behind Ziggy and 'accidentally' dropped a cinder block (Once again, don't ask me why he has a cinder block) on his head. Ziggy was, yet again, knocked out.
Brad ran up. "Where's Kajumei?!"
"I dunno." Jessie shrugged.
Brad blinked. "What are you wearing, Jessie?"
"My duds, skillet." Jessie grinned.
Fei walked up with Zeke and Bart. Bart grinned. "Sweet duds, homie!" Bart shouted and did the 'hang ten' symbol with his fingers.
"Yeah!" Fei added and held up his thumb. "Rock on!"
Zeke nodded and smiled. "What happened to Billy."
"He just realized how square he is." Jessie said.
"Where's Karina?" Brad looked at Bart.
Bart shrugged. "She saw Elly, Maria, Emeralda and Kajumei and they all ran off. Elly said she saw some sort of 'beauty shots' thing. I dunno, it sounded like a scam to me."
"We should probably find them and go to get some lunch." Brad shrugged.
"Ah Brad, Brad!" A voice said from behind.
Brad shivered. "Pretend you can't hear." He hissed.
"Brad! Hiya!" A young man, rather flamboyantly dressed with another man, also flamboyantly dressed, ran up and smiled.
"Uh, hey there Glimmer." Brad looked down.
"Glimmer?" Fei blinked.
"Alex. His name is Alex McKallister." Brad whispered.
"Now I KNOW he's gay." Zeke nodded.
"Where's Karina?" Glimmer smiled.
"How does he know you two?" Bart looked at Brad.
"He works with Karina at the salon." Brad shook his head. "Uh, I dunno, Alex. She went off with some girlfriends to do some sort of 'beauty shots' thing."
"Oh, I know I heard something about that. Now what was it?" Glimmer blinked and folded his arms.
"Uh, whatever. We're gonna go get some lunch." Brad shrugged.
"Oh, let me and Pussy-poo take you out to lunch!" Glimmer smiled and snatched the other young man's arm.
"Hey." The other man smiled sheepishly.
"Um, that's OK, Glim." Brad looked away.
"Oh, I insist." Glimmer smiled and walked up to Billy, Citan and Sigurd. "Oh, what happened here? Square crashing?"
"The gay guy wearing a sequin shirt who doesn't even KNOW me thinks I'm square too." Billy whined.
"Anyway, I'm meeting my brother, his wife and his daughter for lunch, you all can come too!" Glimmer smiled and walked off.
"My, people in Cimerion sure are friendly." Bart blinked.
"Are you sure they said free, Elly?" Karina asked as the group of girls walked up to a large booth.
"Yes!" Elly smiled
"Okay. Cuz I just spent all of my money on these wicked awesome jeans and this adorable hoodie." Karina smiled. "See?" She held up a pair of black baggy jeans. "They have red crisscrossing belts on the back."
"Right." Elly nodded.
"Seeing as how I'm the prettiest of all of us, I'll go first." Kajumei announced and stepped forward.
A man standing at the booth walked up. "Oh, no, you're all so radiant, you all get to go together."
"Listen puny." Kajumei grabbed him. "I wanna get a picture of me for my boyfriend without any of the others in it."
"Oh, you'll all get single pictures, but you all get to come in together is what I meant." He smiled.
Kajumei eyed him suspiciously and shrugged. "OK, fine." She walked up the steps and into the room.
"Lovely." The man smiled as Karina followed. "Very lovely." He nodded as the other three girls followed, Emeralda watching him suspiciously.
"Now I remember!" Glimmer blinked paused mid-stride. His brother, who they had run into while looking for the girls, was with them with his pregnant wife Kalie and his daughter Reila.
"What is it, Uncle Alex?" His niece asked.
"I remembered something I wanted to tell Brad, Reila." Glimmer replied and looked at Brad. "There's a group of men going around setting up strange little shows or things like that to kidnap young girls!"
Brad blinked. "Why?"
"A very wealthy man by the name of Ernest Oni is using them as wives!" He said. "It's mainly rumors, and the police don't have enough evidence to grab him!"
"Real original." Bart commented.
Billy leaned forward. "So, you think that the whole beauty shots thing is just a front to kidnap them?"
Bart sighed. "God, Karina seems to have brought a plague of kidnapping along with her."
Billy, Zeke and Brad glared at him severely.
Fei grabbed his hat (I still don't know why he has it) and threw it in the air again. "Then if there is a threat, we must find our ladies, and find them fast!"
Jessie grabbed the hat and threw it on the ground. "Stop it, G!"
Fei snarled. "Then stop acting like a teenager, old man."
"Can't help it if I'm just with it."
Billy whimpered. "I think we should worry more about Karina and the others than about my dad trying to hide his oldness."
"I'm not old, boy." Jessie hissed.
"Come!" Fei pointed forward and ran ahead.
"He's nuts, daddy." Reila said as her dad lifted her up.
"It seems that way, sweetie." He replied.
"Let's not move too fast, I am carrying a lead weight." Kalie snapped.
"Of course, dear." He rolled his eyes.
"There's something weird about all of this." Karina said and looked around.
"No duh." Kajumei said.
"I think I just wanna get out, I don't need to get my picture taken." Elly looked at the man.
"Sorry, we can't do that." The man smiled and exited the room, shutting the door.
"Hey, she said she wanted out!" Kajumei snapped, walked up to the door and tried to open it, but it was locked. "What the hell!?"
"I knew something was weird about this." Emeralda looked around for a way out.
"Ah!" Maria cried as a gas began to fill the room.
"Oh shit!" Kajumei yelled.
"Oh no!" Karina pushed on the door.
"Let us out!!" Elly screamed and beat on the door.
"I-It's. sleeping. gas." Emeralda said quietly as she fell to the ground, now in a deep sleep.
"Oh man." Kajumei whispered as she and the other girls fell down, asleep as well.
Fei ran up to the group, out of breath. "I searched my part, I didn't see any of them. Some guys said they saw the go into some room labeled for pictures, but they didn't come back out."
"Shit." Billy cursed under his breath. "I just got her back, and now she's gone again."
"It must've been those men again!" Glimmer said.
"Bad men?" Reila asked.
"Yes." Glimmer replied.
"There must be some way to get them back." Bart said.
"Well, you all could always find your way into Ernest Oni's mansion and look for them there. Problem is, I don't know how you'd get in." Glimmer's boyfriend said.
"Oh man." Rico looked down.
"What are we going to do, young ones?" Citan folded his arms.
Bart grinned, his eyes lighting up. "My mind just hatched a brilliant scheme."
"What?" Fei looked at him. "It doesn't involve me entering a tournament, does it?"
"No."
"Good."
"But you WILL be involved." Bart grinned.
"Why me?"
"You're feminine." Bart smiled.
"Oh well, WHAT?! Feminine?!" Fei looked at him, a shocked expression on his face.
"Why do you care if Fei is feminine?" Billy eyed him suspiciously.
"Oh, we're going to get into that mansion. INCOGNITO!" Bart announced.
"The hell?" Brad blinked.
".As women." Bart hissed.
All of the men, except for Glimmer and his boyfriend became shocked.
"No shit of a way, man!" Fei screamed.
"That's real original, Bart." Billy said sarcastically.
"Oh, come now." Bart smiled.
"It actually seems rather pliable." Sigurd nodded.
"True." Citan added.
"We don't even know if they really are kidnapped. They could've gone to some restaurant." Billy said.
"Ah, but my Fei Senses are tingling. Elly is in trouble when they tingle, I know it!" Fei looked at them.
"Fei senses?" Billy blinked.
"Oh, and I could make you into women! I could do it!" Glimmer smiled. "Oh, let me do it, please let me do it!"
"Geeze, man, fine!" Zeke hissed.
"Well then." Glimmer smiled.
"Should we do it?" Billy looked at Bart and Fei.
"If all else fails, we'll get a good laugh out of this." Bart shrugged.
"Anything for my Elly." Fei nodded.
"And I'd do anything for Karina." Billy sighed.
"Good luck, men!" Jessie grinned.
"You all are going to go undercover as women to save the girls?" Zeke chuckled.
"The kidnapped ladies! My pillows!" Ziggy whimpered.
Rico knocked Ziggy out again.
Fei sighed and then took a large breath, turning to Glimmer. "Let's do it."
"Make us into women." Bart nodded.
"We're ready." Billy sighed.
Glimmer put a hand to his cheek and sighed. "Well, it'll take all my strength, all my creative genius, but I am up to a challenge." He folded his arms and smiled. "Gentlemen."
Fei, Billy and Bart sighed and stood up straight, Jessie stifling a laugh.
".Let's Glimmerize you." Glimmer whispered.
Karina sat up, shaking her head. "What happened?"
"You're the newest arrivals for Oni's wife collection." A girl said and sat back.
"What?" Elly sat up as well.
"I'm scared." Emeralda whispered.
"This is bullshit!" Kajumei yelled.
"No duh." Maria snapped.
"And look." Elly pointed behind Karina. "Who else they got." She whispered.
Karina turned around and gasped. A woman was asleep, her mint green hair strewn about her. Karina looked back at the others. "It's Sierra."
Everyone on the Yggdrasil was still in bad spirits from the day before. Sigurd hadn't said much since Sierra left, and Citan had kept to himself as well. Karina, Billy and Zeke seemed to be continually playing poker or other random card games. Jessie joined them every once in a while, as did Bart and Fei, and rarely Rico. Primera watched the games quietly, sitting on Billy's lap all the while. Elly, Maria and Emeralda hung out together as they usually did, Chu Chu hovering around them a lot of the time.
Karina walked up to the breakfast table, carrying a tray of blueberry muffins. She smiled a little and said; "Hey, why don't we all go to the mall in Cimerion today. It's bound to lighten people's spirits." She paused and set the tray on the table, Billy taking one promptly.
"I think it's a good idea." Billy replied after a long heavy silence. He spread some butter on the muffin and smiled. "I'll go with you."
"I'll go too." Zeke put in quickly after Billy.
"Yeah, it'll be fun." Kajumei grinned and poked Brad. "How bout it, hun?"
"Ooh ooh! And I can go get more posters of that large breasted Mandy from Sugar Rush." Ziggy grinned and began giggling.
"Not so early." Rico rolled his eyes but after a few minutes of Ziggy's laughing he got fed up, took a newspaper and knocked Ziggy out yet again.
Brad blinked, then shrugged. "Sure, why not." He then glared at Billy and Zeke and any other male in the room. "And I'll have to make sure they keep their paws off my pure baby sister."
"We'll all go!" Fei stood up. "And have fun, god dammit, have fun!" He bellowed, and threw his hat (Don't ask me exactly why Fei has a hat) into the air.
::Change to the mall, where the group was standing in their casual clothes::
"Come on, Brad, I wanna get that new CD!" Karina poked him. "You always hold my money so that I don't spend it all, and I want my money NOW! Now now now!"
"Karina, you have enough CD's."
"Oh, right. If you all will excuse me, I need to go over here and get a drink." Karina rolled her eyes and walked off to the drinking fountain.
"Ah, see? All you need to do is use a strict tone and they'll back down." Brad nodded.
"You hold her money? What is she, five?" Bart squinted.
"Well, I just think she should learn to save money." Brad said.
"How can she learn if you hold her money all the time?" Billy asked.
"Well, you see- Oh, hold on a sec." He said and pulled out his cell phone, which was ringing. "Hello?" He smiled.
Practically everyone near him heard the scream over the cell phone. Brad winced and dropped his cell.
Karina walked up, putting her cell phone back into her purse. She stood next to Brad and smiled, one hand on her hip, one hand held out as if waiting for something. Brad looked at her sideways, pulled out his wallet and gave her money. Karina smiled and put the money into her purse.
"Thank you, Brad." She said sweetly.
Zeke grinned, then looked at Billy. "What a woman."
Billy smiled. "She's pretty cool with how she can pull that trick on him all the time and he always falls for it." He replied, and then followed Karina.
Brad flipped through his wallet and frowned. "Hey, wait. I had a few fifties in here." He blinked and looked at where Karina had scurried. "Ahh! Karina!"
Kajumei smiled and held up a few bills. "Oh, Brad thinks I put my hand on his butt because I wanted to. Little did he know, little did he know." She looked at Bart and the two whooped and did a high five.
"Snap!" Bart grinned and looked at Brad running around trying to find Karina.
"OK, young ones, now let us use some discretion while we are. Young ones?" Citan blinked and looked around. "Where did they all go?"
Jessie walked up, holding an Icee once again. He slurped a little, and then looked at him. "Dude, Hyuga, chill."
"I do not mean to bring down-"
"You mean come down, old timer?" Jessie eyed him.
"Yes. I do not mean to come down so hard, but I must be responsible- Jessie?! Where are you going?" Citan blinked.
"It smells like teen spirit, old man!" Jessie said and with a yelp of laughter was off.
Citan sighed and looked at Sigurd. "Do you think we will be drug off to be used as makeup samplers again?"
"Most likely." Sigurd sighed.
"Sigurd?" Citan whispered.
"Yes?"
"I'm scared."
"Me too."
"Hold me!"
"Only if you hold me too!" Sigurd whimpered as the girls descended upon them.
"Billy, listen to this." Karina said a put some headphones on Billy's head.
"Sounds like noise to me." Billy replied.
"Ugh, shows what you know." Karina smiled. "It's the new Black Dragon CD! It's been hyped for like, four months at least."
"Should I care?" Billy looked at her.
Karina smiled at him for a few moments, then said gently; "Billy, dear?"
"Yeah?" Billy said as he made a move for the New Age section.
"You are the squariest square that ever squared." She smiled.
"I'm not a square."
"Really?"
"Y-Yes! I'm very hip and with it! In fact, I think I shall get the new Spewing Guts CD!"
"You mean Bleeding Soul?" Karina eyed him.
"Whatever!" Billy sighed.
"Hey, Karina!" Zeke ran up. "Did you hear the new single from Celeztial?"
"Oh, look, they spelled it with a z instead of an s. I suppose spelling things correctly is square too?" Billy looked at Karina.
Karina poked Billy's side and smiled. "Yeah, I did. It seems kind of unoriginal."
"Yeah. But still, I'm getting the CD!"
"They have it here already?" Karina blinked.
"Yeah!"
"Cool!" Karina pushed past Zeke.
"Zeke, do you think I'm square?" Billy said.
"Why do you care?" Zeke blinked.
"Karina called me square."
"Well. Uh. I guess one could call you. um. Igottagobye!" Zeke slipped away.
Billy whimpered.
"Hey, Billy where's-WHOA!" Bart came up and began to talk, but Billy spun around and grabbed him.
"Tell me I'm not square!!" Billy screeched.
"Uh." Bart looked around and pushed Billy off. "I think we should remain on a five feet away at least relationship, Billy."
"Whatever, just tell me I'm not square!"
"Pssh! You're not square." Bart grinned.
"Really?"
"Nope. You're Ultra Square." Bart chuckled.
"Hey guys, wanna see what I got?" Fei said as he walked up.
"I'm not square!" Billy yelled and ran away.
Fei blinked. "Uh. Okay, that was disturbing."
"Billy's worried about being square." Bart said. Fei looked at him and the two stood in silence momentarily, then their cheeks bulged up, turned red and they burst out laughing.
Zeke walked up and paused. "What's your defect?" He asked.
Fei gasped. "No-nothing!" He chuckled and wiped a tear away.
"Rrrright." Zeke blinked and stepped away slowly.
Brad came up, seeming out of breath.
"What's wrong with you?" Bart blinked.
"I need to find Karina!" Brad gasped.
"Why?" Fei asked.
"She took my fifties!"
"Actually, that was your woman." Bart nodded.
Brad's chest heaved and he looked outside the electronics store. "KKKKAAAAAAJJJJJUUUUUUMMMMEEEEEIIII!!!!" He bellowed and ran off.
::At the salon::
"Did you hear something?" Kajumei looked over at Elly, Maria, Emeralda and Chu Chu, who were all getting manicures. Ziggy was there just for a backrub from the 'hot babe with the big yahoos'.
"Nope." They all replied.
"Eh." Kajumei shrugged and went back to reading.
"Do you think Citan and Sigurd are alive?" Maria looked at Elly.
"Maybe." Elly shrugged.
"Hehe." Emeralda chuckled.
"Citan.?" Sigurd whispered.
"Yes, Sigurd?" Citan whined.
"I'm in immense pain." Sigurd replied.
"Me too."
"The brushes. The eyelash curlers." Sigurd moaned.
"The powder and foundation!" Citan cried.
"Ahh!" Sigurd screamed.
"Pain." Citan whined as Jessie walked up, now wearing the latest in fashion and holding yet another Icee.
"Word, home slice." Jessie said.
Sigurd blinked. "What the hell is that thing on your head?"
"Oh, man, dude. I like went into this store and this lady said that like my fashion was sooooo last year! So, I decided to like cool myself up." Jessie grinned. "I'm in the zone."
Citan blinked. "Jessie. you need intense psychological help."
"Dude, don't diss the duds." Jessie turned around. "I'm gonna go hang with my peops."
"Jessie has peops?" Sigurd looked at Citan.
"What are peops?" Citan blinked.
Billy walked up and blinked. "Oh my lord, what happened to you?"
"Pain." Sigurd whispered.
"Yo, square." Jessie said and slapped Billy's back.
Billy turned to his father and his eyes bulged. "I AM NOT A SQUARE!!"
"You wear like a pastel bow half the time." Jessie replied.
"My father thinks I'm square." Billy sighed and fell to the ground next to Citan and Sigurd.
"I'll stick with you squares and make you all truly un-squarely." Jessie sat down and slurped some of his Icee. Some women walked by and smiled.
"Hi, Jessie!"
Billy looked at Jessie. "What. in. god's. name.?"
"Some of my peops." Jessie nodded.
Billy sighed. "I am rather square."
"Yes, yes you are. But don't feel bad. They're square too." Jessie pointed at Sigurd and Citan, who were lying in fetal positions on the ground murmuring about makeup and rabid squirrels.
"Oh lord!" Billy cried.
"Whooooooo lawdy lawd!" Ziggy whooped as he walked up. "I got the best massage from the hot lady with big yahoos!" He paused ad looked at Billy. "What's wrong with the square?"
Billy cried out and fell into a fetal position with Citan and Sigurd.
Rico appeared behind Ziggy and 'accidentally' dropped a cinder block (Once again, don't ask me why he has a cinder block) on his head. Ziggy was, yet again, knocked out.
Brad ran up. "Where's Kajumei?!"
"I dunno." Jessie shrugged.
Brad blinked. "What are you wearing, Jessie?"
"My duds, skillet." Jessie grinned.
Fei walked up with Zeke and Bart. Bart grinned. "Sweet duds, homie!" Bart shouted and did the 'hang ten' symbol with his fingers.
"Yeah!" Fei added and held up his thumb. "Rock on!"
Zeke nodded and smiled. "What happened to Billy."
"He just realized how square he is." Jessie said.
"Where's Karina?" Brad looked at Bart.
Bart shrugged. "She saw Elly, Maria, Emeralda and Kajumei and they all ran off. Elly said she saw some sort of 'beauty shots' thing. I dunno, it sounded like a scam to me."
"We should probably find them and go to get some lunch." Brad shrugged.
"Ah Brad, Brad!" A voice said from behind.
Brad shivered. "Pretend you can't hear." He hissed.
"Brad! Hiya!" A young man, rather flamboyantly dressed with another man, also flamboyantly dressed, ran up and smiled.
"Uh, hey there Glimmer." Brad looked down.
"Glimmer?" Fei blinked.
"Alex. His name is Alex McKallister." Brad whispered.
"Now I KNOW he's gay." Zeke nodded.
"Where's Karina?" Glimmer smiled.
"How does he know you two?" Bart looked at Brad.
"He works with Karina at the salon." Brad shook his head. "Uh, I dunno, Alex. She went off with some girlfriends to do some sort of 'beauty shots' thing."
"Oh, I know I heard something about that. Now what was it?" Glimmer blinked and folded his arms.
"Uh, whatever. We're gonna go get some lunch." Brad shrugged.
"Oh, let me and Pussy-poo take you out to lunch!" Glimmer smiled and snatched the other young man's arm.
"Hey." The other man smiled sheepishly.
"Um, that's OK, Glim." Brad looked away.
"Oh, I insist." Glimmer smiled and walked up to Billy, Citan and Sigurd. "Oh, what happened here? Square crashing?"
"The gay guy wearing a sequin shirt who doesn't even KNOW me thinks I'm square too." Billy whined.
"Anyway, I'm meeting my brother, his wife and his daughter for lunch, you all can come too!" Glimmer smiled and walked off.
"My, people in Cimerion sure are friendly." Bart blinked.
"Are you sure they said free, Elly?" Karina asked as the group of girls walked up to a large booth.
"Yes!" Elly smiled
"Okay. Cuz I just spent all of my money on these wicked awesome jeans and this adorable hoodie." Karina smiled. "See?" She held up a pair of black baggy jeans. "They have red crisscrossing belts on the back."
"Right." Elly nodded.
"Seeing as how I'm the prettiest of all of us, I'll go first." Kajumei announced and stepped forward.
A man standing at the booth walked up. "Oh, no, you're all so radiant, you all get to go together."
"Listen puny." Kajumei grabbed him. "I wanna get a picture of me for my boyfriend without any of the others in it."
"Oh, you'll all get single pictures, but you all get to come in together is what I meant." He smiled.
Kajumei eyed him suspiciously and shrugged. "OK, fine." She walked up the steps and into the room.
"Lovely." The man smiled as Karina followed. "Very lovely." He nodded as the other three girls followed, Emeralda watching him suspiciously.
"Now I remember!" Glimmer blinked paused mid-stride. His brother, who they had run into while looking for the girls, was with them with his pregnant wife Kalie and his daughter Reila.
"What is it, Uncle Alex?" His niece asked.
"I remembered something I wanted to tell Brad, Reila." Glimmer replied and looked at Brad. "There's a group of men going around setting up strange little shows or things like that to kidnap young girls!"
Brad blinked. "Why?"
"A very wealthy man by the name of Ernest Oni is using them as wives!" He said. "It's mainly rumors, and the police don't have enough evidence to grab him!"
"Real original." Bart commented.
Billy leaned forward. "So, you think that the whole beauty shots thing is just a front to kidnap them?"
Bart sighed. "God, Karina seems to have brought a plague of kidnapping along with her."
Billy, Zeke and Brad glared at him severely.
Fei grabbed his hat (I still don't know why he has it) and threw it in the air again. "Then if there is a threat, we must find our ladies, and find them fast!"
Jessie grabbed the hat and threw it on the ground. "Stop it, G!"
Fei snarled. "Then stop acting like a teenager, old man."
"Can't help it if I'm just with it."
Billy whimpered. "I think we should worry more about Karina and the others than about my dad trying to hide his oldness."
"I'm not old, boy." Jessie hissed.
"Come!" Fei pointed forward and ran ahead.
"He's nuts, daddy." Reila said as her dad lifted her up.
"It seems that way, sweetie." He replied.
"Let's not move too fast, I am carrying a lead weight." Kalie snapped.
"Of course, dear." He rolled his eyes.
"There's something weird about all of this." Karina said and looked around.
"No duh." Kajumei said.
"I think I just wanna get out, I don't need to get my picture taken." Elly looked at the man.
"Sorry, we can't do that." The man smiled and exited the room, shutting the door.
"Hey, she said she wanted out!" Kajumei snapped, walked up to the door and tried to open it, but it was locked. "What the hell!?"
"I knew something was weird about this." Emeralda looked around for a way out.
"Ah!" Maria cried as a gas began to fill the room.
"Oh shit!" Kajumei yelled.
"Oh no!" Karina pushed on the door.
"Let us out!!" Elly screamed and beat on the door.
"I-It's. sleeping. gas." Emeralda said quietly as she fell to the ground, now in a deep sleep.
"Oh man." Kajumei whispered as she and the other girls fell down, asleep as well.
Fei ran up to the group, out of breath. "I searched my part, I didn't see any of them. Some guys said they saw the go into some room labeled for pictures, but they didn't come back out."
"Shit." Billy cursed under his breath. "I just got her back, and now she's gone again."
"It must've been those men again!" Glimmer said.
"Bad men?" Reila asked.
"Yes." Glimmer replied.
"There must be some way to get them back." Bart said.
"Well, you all could always find your way into Ernest Oni's mansion and look for them there. Problem is, I don't know how you'd get in." Glimmer's boyfriend said.
"Oh man." Rico looked down.
"What are we going to do, young ones?" Citan folded his arms.
Bart grinned, his eyes lighting up. "My mind just hatched a brilliant scheme."
"What?" Fei looked at him. "It doesn't involve me entering a tournament, does it?"
"No."
"Good."
"But you WILL be involved." Bart grinned.
"Why me?"
"You're feminine." Bart smiled.
"Oh well, WHAT?! Feminine?!" Fei looked at him, a shocked expression on his face.
"Why do you care if Fei is feminine?" Billy eyed him suspiciously.
"Oh, we're going to get into that mansion. INCOGNITO!" Bart announced.
"The hell?" Brad blinked.
".As women." Bart hissed.
All of the men, except for Glimmer and his boyfriend became shocked.
"No shit of a way, man!" Fei screamed.
"That's real original, Bart." Billy said sarcastically.
"Oh, come now." Bart smiled.
"It actually seems rather pliable." Sigurd nodded.
"True." Citan added.
"We don't even know if they really are kidnapped. They could've gone to some restaurant." Billy said.
"Ah, but my Fei Senses are tingling. Elly is in trouble when they tingle, I know it!" Fei looked at them.
"Fei senses?" Billy blinked.
"Oh, and I could make you into women! I could do it!" Glimmer smiled. "Oh, let me do it, please let me do it!"
"Geeze, man, fine!" Zeke hissed.
"Well then." Glimmer smiled.
"Should we do it?" Billy looked at Bart and Fei.
"If all else fails, we'll get a good laugh out of this." Bart shrugged.
"Anything for my Elly." Fei nodded.
"And I'd do anything for Karina." Billy sighed.
"Good luck, men!" Jessie grinned.
"You all are going to go undercover as women to save the girls?" Zeke chuckled.
"The kidnapped ladies! My pillows!" Ziggy whimpered.
Rico knocked Ziggy out again.
Fei sighed and then took a large breath, turning to Glimmer. "Let's do it."
"Make us into women." Bart nodded.
"We're ready." Billy sighed.
Glimmer put a hand to his cheek and sighed. "Well, it'll take all my strength, all my creative genius, but I am up to a challenge." He folded his arms and smiled. "Gentlemen."
Fei, Billy and Bart sighed and stood up straight, Jessie stifling a laugh.
".Let's Glimmerize you." Glimmer whispered.
Karina sat up, shaking her head. "What happened?"
"You're the newest arrivals for Oni's wife collection." A girl said and sat back.
"What?" Elly sat up as well.
"I'm scared." Emeralda whispered.
"This is bullshit!" Kajumei yelled.
"No duh." Maria snapped.
"And look." Elly pointed behind Karina. "Who else they got." She whispered.
Karina turned around and gasped. A woman was asleep, her mint green hair strewn about her. Karina looked back at the others. "It's Sierra."